Ireland men's table tennis team knocked out
Ireland men's table tennis class 1-2 team have lost their quarter-final clash with France.
Ireland men's table tennis class 1-2 team have lost their quarter-final clash with France.
At the ExCel Arena this afternoon, Philip Quinlan lost his singles M1 preliminary match against Great Britain's Rob Davies 11-6, 11-6, 11-7.
Rena McCarron Rooney lost her opening match in the Paralympic table tennis singles F1-2 preliminaries at the ExCel Arena to France's Isabelle Lafaye Marziou.
Eimear Breathnach, competing for Ireland at Paralympic table tennis, files her first blog for RTÉ.ie
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China completed a sweep of all the Olympic table tennis golds on Wednesday when their men stormed to victory over South Korea to clinch the team title on the closing day of the London Games tournament.
China moved one step away from a second successive clean sweep of Olympic table tennis golds when their women marched to a 3-0 victory over a young Japanese team at the London Games.
Des Cahill reports on the refereeing decisions that brought China's Ding Ning to tears in the table tennis final
Zhang Jike completed the table tennis Grand Slam as Wang Hao endured more Olympics heartache at the London 2012 Games.
China's Li Xiaoxia clinched the women's individual table tennis gold with a surprise 4-1 victory over compatriot and favourite Ding Ning.
Taiwan's Chuang Chih-Yuan felt like he had to "kill his brother" after overcoming best friend Adrian Crisan at the London 2012 Olympics.
World number one Zhang Jike dug deep to reach the men's singles quarter-finals at the London 2012 Olympics, but the same could not be said of Timo Boll or Jun Mizutani.
China achieved table tennis perfection at the last Olympics, sweeping both singles podiums and winning the team titles, but a rule change has given at least a glimmer of hope to their rivals in London.
Find out more about table tennis at the Olympics.
Three table tennis places and four equestrian spots have been secured at the 2012 Paralympic Games taking place in London this summer.
Novak Djokovic turned the tables on Tomas Berdych at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals in London with a comfortable 6-3 6-3 victory in the opening Group A match at the O2 Arena this afternoon.
Read how Rafael Nadal overcame Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic in the men's singles final at Wimbledon.
Serena Williams landed her third Wimbledon title in fine style as she proved too strong for sister Venus in the final.
China's three table tennis giants powered Friday into the men's singles semi-finals with only Swedish veteran Jorgen Persson standing in their way of gold.
China's world number one Zhang Yining won back-to-back Olympic Games table tennis golds Friday, defeating teammate Wang Nan and handing the hosts a clean sweep of the medals in the women's singles competition.